Php IE 7 help

misheck · October 18, 2008

I am just starting out on PHP and I have a laptop configured with Xampp meaning I have PHP, Apache, Mysql and MyPhpadmin installed. I have IE7 and firefox installed. My problem is that I am trying out a php script I have written which has a login and submit button. When I click the submit button in IE7 nothing happens but when I use firefox I am able to login. My test server is the same laptop so its running on localhost. I have tried adding 127.0.0.1 and localhost to the trusted site and also to intranet site but nothing has changed.

I know my script is OK because its working well on Firefox so the problem is to do with IE7. I dont think the session is using any cookies and also even if it was the submit button would work still and the message displayed for the incorrect login details displayed.

Any suggestions to get my php script work on IE7. I will post the srcipt if its relevant to troubleshoot the problem.

darkfreaks · October 18, 2008

please post the code so we can see how it is being used

DarkWater · October 18, 2008

I'd probably have to go on a limb and say your form HTML is bad. >_>

CroNiX · October 18, 2008

PHP only outputs what you tell it to. PHP has nothing to do with browsers. The only thing that differs from browser to browser is how it interprets your HTML and CSS. As DarkWater stated, the problem is probably in your HTML output but we can't know for sure without looking at your code (obviously).

jordanwb · October 18, 2008

Did you start the Apache server?

DarkWater · October 18, 2008

Did you start the Apache server?

Obviously.

PFMaBiSmAd · October 18, 2008

I'm going to guess its' an image submit button - http://us2.php.net/manual/en/faq.html.php#faq.html.form-image

misheck · October 18, 2008

Here is the login code:

<?php

session_unset();

?>

<html>

<head>

<title>Please Log In</title>

</head>

<body>

<?php include "header.php"; ?>

<p>Enter your username:

</p>

<p>Enter your password:

</p>

</p>

</form>

<?php include "footer.php"; ?>

</body>

</html>

and here is the link to the site after the submit button

<?php

session_start ();

//check to see if user has logged in with a valid password

if ($_SESSION['authuser']!=1) {

echo "Sorry but you don't have permission to view this page, you looser!";

exit();

}

?>

<html>

<head>

<title>My Movie Site- <?php echo $_REQUEST['favmovie']; ?></title>

</head>

<body>

<?php include "header.php"; ?>

<?php

$favmovies = array("Life of Brian",

"Stripes",

"Office Space",

"The Holy Grail",

"Matrix",

"Terminator 2",

"Star Wars",

"Close encounters of the Third Kind",

"Sixteen Candles",

"Caddyshack");

//end of deleted lines

if (isset($_REQUEST['favmovie'])) {

echo "Welcome to our site, ";

//delete this line: echo $_COOKIE['username'];

echo $_SESSION['username'];

echo "! <br>";

echo "My favorite movie is ";

echo $_REQUEST['favmovie'];

echo "<br>";

$movierate = 5;

echo "My Movie rating for this movie is : ";

echo $movierate;

} else {

echo "My Top ". $_POST["num"] . " movies are:<br>";

if (isset ($_REQUEST['sorted'])) {

sort($favmovies);

}

//list the movies

$numlist = 1;

while ($numlist <= $_POST["num"]) {

echo $numlist;

echo ". ";

echo pos($favmovies);

next($favmovies);

echo "<br>\n";

//changed this

$numlist = $numlist + 1;

}

?>

<?php include "footer.php"; ?>

</body>

</html>

misheck · October 18, 2008

I dont think my problem is to do with the code but it might have something to do with IE7 because the same code works firefox.

darkfreaks · October 18, 2008

try in your first if statement to check for not empty or !empty variable. tell me if this solves it or not

PFMaBiSmAd · October 18, 2008

Other than a missing <p> tag, the posted form code works in IE7. Your header.php and to a lesser extent footer.php could be doing something that causes the HTML to be invalid. Some browsers ignore HTML errors but other browsers don't.

It would take posting all the code that makes up the page the form in on or providing a link if this is on a public server.

The second piece of posted code is not your login code because the first thing it does is to check if you are already logged in, it is not actually doing the logging in.

After you make sure there are absolutely no problems in the form, the first troubleshooting step is to display exactly what $_POST data is received by your form processing code.

There are other possible reasons, such as register_globals are on and you have a cookie set in one browser but not the other with the same name as a form field and the cookie value overwrites the form data. Or maybe you already have a session established in one browser and are already logged in, but not the other browser and your login code has a problem.

misheck · October 18, 2008

The code has never worked with IE7 before and after I added the header and footer. I have only added them because I could not afford to hold my studies over this but I am just interested in knowing why its not working so I can use IE7 for test site.

In reply to darkfreaks I dont know how and where to add the if statement.

I have also checked that the registers_global is off and I have tried opening and starting a new session but that has not helped either. Try the code with header and footer removed and see if you the submit button works.

I have tried adding <p> but that has not helped either. I am just surprised the submit button works in firefox and safari without any issues and in IE7 it just doesnt do anything.

wildteen88 · October 18, 2008

What is the relevance between the two blocks of code you posted. I cannot seem to see any relevance.

You should also post what the code is supposed to do. What the code is doing now, rather than saying it doesn't work.

misheck · October 18, 2008

The submit button does not work in IE7. The first code is the one with the login code and page. The second code is the link you are sent to after entering the correct username and password. I have posted the missing code below.

<?php

//delete this line: setcookie ('username', 'Joe',time()+60);

session_start();

$_SESSION['username'] = $_POST['user'];

$_SESSION['userpass'] = $_POST ['pass'];

$_SESSION['authuser'] = 0;

//Check username and password information

if (($_SESSION['username'] == 'Joe') and

($_SESSION ['userpass'] == '12345')) {

$_SESSION['authuser'] = 1;

}else{

echo "Sorry, but you dont have permission to view this page, you looser!";

exit();

}

?>

<html>

<head>

<title>Find my Favorite Movie!</title>

</head>

<body>

<?php include "header.php"; ?>

<p>Enter your font choice :

<option value="Verdana">Verdana</option>

<option value="Arial">Arial</option>

<option value="Times New Roman">Times New Roman</option>

</select>

</p>

<p>Enter your font size:

</select>

</p>

<option value="black">Black</option>

<option value="green">Green</option>

<option value="purple">Purple</option>

</select>

</p>

<?php

//add this line:

$myfavmovie = urlencode("Life of Brian");

//change this line;

echo "<a href='moviesite.php?favmovie=$myfavmovie'>";

echo "Click here to see information about my favorite movie!";

echo "</a>";

echo "<br>";

//change the following line:

echo "Or choose how many movies you would like to see:";

echo "</a>";

echo "<br>";

?>

<p>Enter number of movies (up to 10)

<br>

check here if you want the list sorted alphabetically:

</p>

</form>

<?php include "footer.php"; ?>

</body>

</html>

darkfreaks · October 18, 2008

if(isset($_REQUEST['favmovie'])){}

change TO:

if(isset($_REQUEST['favmovie'])||!empty($_REQUEST['favmovie'])){

wildteen88 · October 18, 2008

I have tested your code in IE7 and it works fine for me.

misheck · October 18, 2008

I have tried adding the if statement but when I click the submit button nothing happens at all. In firefox it carries on working OK.

wildteen88 · October 18, 2008

What happens if you remove the following line in login.php (apart from the header disappearing)

<?php include "header.php"; ?>

Sign In

Php IE 7 help

Recommended Posts

Link to comment

Share on other sites

Link to comment

Share on other sites

Link to comment

Share on other sites

Link to comment

Share on other sites

Link to comment

Share on other sites

Link to comment

Share on other sites

Link to comment

Share on other sites

Link to comment

Share on other sites

Link to comment

Share on other sites

Link to comment

Share on other sites

Link to comment

Share on other sites

Link to comment

Share on other sites

Link to comment

Share on other sites

Link to comment

Share on other sites

Link to comment

Share on other sites

Link to comment

Share on other sites

Link to comment

Share on other sites

Link to comment

Share on other sites

Join the conversation

Important Information